This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco’s historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the ‘openness’ of modern works such as Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
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Table of Content
1. The Intermediate Thinker.- 2. The Intellectual Species.- 3. A Medievalist in Hibernation.- 4. The Exiled Heretic.- 5. The Art of Adventure: Joyce, Pareyson, and the Open Work.- 6. The Gruppo 63 and the Counter-Culture Movement.- 7. The Aesthetic Worlds of Superman and Charlie Brown.- 8. The Semiotic Species: A Grand Unified Theory of Culture.- 9. The Ethics of Interpretation and the Model Reader.- 10. Travels in the Fictional Labyrinth.About the author
Douglass Merrell completed his Ph D in in History on Umberto Eco at the University of Washington in 2000. He has subsequently taught in Rome, Venice, and Padua.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9783319547893 ● File size 12.3 MB ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5197887 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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